by Patrick | Apr 28, 2019 | art, art as language, drawing, education, Environment, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, photography
A while ago I wrote about seeing art around me. Probably a major part of that vision is my training and 50 years of experience in the art and design business. It is not a secret world though, but one that everyone can enjoy. Picasso talked of the child like innocence...
by Patrick | Mar 24, 2019 | Design, Environment, Lifestyle, Travel
Place: Kasbah Angour, Tahanaout, Nr. Marrakech, Morocco Type: 4-star Hotel Operator: Owner and Creator Paul Foulsham Web: www.Kasbahangour.com Date of Visit: March 2019 A man with a dream – no, a Yorkshireman with a dream. A geologist working for oil companies buys a...
by Patrick | Jan 1, 2019 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography
It began with memories. All my life I have moved around, and after leaving Brighton for the wetlands known as Lancashire, I began to record those memories in visual form. It would have been easy to work from photographs but those would only have caught an instance,...
by Patrick | Dec 16, 2018 | art, Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance
No “Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir” and the only stately galleons were the rain squalls sailing majestically up the Channel as I walk the shingle shore. Closer to the water the smaller stones glistened like “diamonds, emeralds, amethysts, topazes, and...
by Patrick | Dec 5, 2018 | Environment, Lifestyle, Remembrance, Uncategorized
I have written 3 pieces previously about my efforts to learn to be a bell ringer. My goal was to ring in the international remembrance ring on the 11th November, which I did, an emotional moment, but I have continued to learn, progressing to rounds and beginning to...
by Patrick | Oct 11, 2018 | art, Design, Environment, Lifestyle, photography
Golden light greets me when I open the curtains first thing in the morning, the low sun casting long shadows and lighting the edges of the trees. Glorious soundtrack of birdsong as the dawn paints the aircraft contrails pink in a sky studded with stars and a glowing...
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